Boris Johnson failing on UK plan to reach net zero, say MPs

Public accounts committee report says despite green rhetoric, government policy is falling short

Boris Johnson has failed to set out a plan for the UK to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions despite the government's green rhetoric, a committee of MPs has found.

Ministers are failing to instruct their departments to take the net zero goal into account when setting policy, there has been little coordination between central and local government on achieving emissions reductions, and the public has not been engaged, the public accounts committee said in a report published on Friday.